Godzilla is a franchise larger than life
(both in terms of the title character and the breadth of films made with the
iconic daikaiju-hero), and this makes the largeness of the spectacle something
special in the right format. This could not be truer of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which has a collection of monsters
to behold, as homage to the original Toho Studio films that the Legendary has
adopted into their “MonsterVerse” (Kong is absent from this one, to be seen in
a show-off teased during this film’s post-credit sequence), including King
Ghidorah, Rodan, and Mothra. Along with
the integration of additional giant monsters from the Japanese counterpart, the
film cleverly includes the use of the original weapon used to destroy Godzilla
in the classic 1954 film